PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1919, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A London cable states thiat it is officially denied that Princess Mary is engaged. Mr. A. T. Cumtensen had been reelected chairman of the Patea Harljor Board.

A Dunedin message reports the death of Mrs. Fulton, widow of the Hon. Jus. Fulton, M.L.C., aged 00.

At last night's meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council Cr. W. A. Colli b was re-elected deputy-Mayor. A Melbourne cable states that Captain Bean, official war correspondent, has returned.

Waverley has decided to erect a hall and club house as a memorial to the local men killed in the war. Mr. Justice Edwards and Mr. Juitice Hosking are both indisposed, and have been so for the past two days.

A New York cable states that Lord Reading, Lord Chief Justice of England) who has been noting as British Plenipotentiary to America, has sailed for London.

At Christchurch, William Broadway, well known in business circles and a member of Broadway Bros., a confectionery firm, died suddenly yesterday morning. He had been in indifferent health for some months.

The following soldiers returned on Tuesday night: Privates A. Foden, Cleaver, Barkla, Douglas and 8.8.M, Roberts (Hawera), and Sergeants Kendall and Sinclair (Manaia). There was also Tpr. Percy Marchant, son of Mr. G. A. Marchant, with his wife from the Old Coun-. try.

At the annual meeting of Te Henui parishioners last evening, a presentation of a gold-mounted fountain pen w|g made to Mr. H. J. Johnstone, iu recognition of his good work in the office of people's warden for seven years past. The vioar stated that it wag felt that something should be done to mark Mr. .Johnstone's return from camp to To Henui, and the small present was to b# taken as a token of their joy in the re» turn of their warden. The Hon. G. M. Thomson, M.L.C,, mentioned to an Otago Daily Time* reporter that, when on a visit to' Wellington lie looked in at the Court of Appeal, which was then sitting, and was astonished to find that the five judges on the Bench were ex-Otago solicitors— namely, Sir Robert Stout (Chief Justice), Jusitices Sim, Edwards, Hoiking, and Chapman. The case being heard was an Otago one, and the four barristers engaged—Sir John Salmond, Mr. W. 0. MaeGregor, K.C., Mr. John MaeGregor, and Mr. Stewart (Balclutha)— were Otago men. Two other barristers who were keen listeners to the argument were also ex-Otago men—namely, Mr, John O'Shea (city solicitor, Wellington) and Mr. Cornish.

In concluding his presidential address at the opening of the Anglican General Synod at Napier last week, Dr. NeviU (Bishop of Dunedin and Primate of New Zeaiand) said: "My address to the Gen* eral Synod on this occasion is necessarily of a farewell character, as I contemplate -. the resignation of my dioce9c at the close of the year. I would have tendered my resignation of the Primacy of the Senior Bishop before this session'but for certain ' inconveniences which appeared to be connected with my so doing; but I will resign at once should it appear expedient for me to do so before the close of this synod. I have now acted aa Primate for seventeen years, and the latter of these have involved a great deal of anxious, labor Finally, brethren, if I seem in this address to have been too much a laudator tempons acti I plead in excuse that after the fourth of June next I shall have entered by fortyninth year as a Bishop of this province, but my last word shall be of the future;. ,' and to my younger fellow-churchmen 1 say 'gird up thy loins, bind on thy aandais, assume the shield of faith, for the times to come might be too hard ev*n for the faithful had not Christ said, Tip, I am with you always eves t% th« ead of Uu acß».'wAm«n.'?' ' ' I